From New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market – the most secretive, invisible, government-sponsored market on earth – and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare.
Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity for the New York Times. She is the recipient of several journalism awards including best technology reporting by the Society of Business Editors and Writers. Her 2014 Times profile of security blogger Brian Krebs was optioned by Sony Pictures and a 2016 story of Chinese hackers in a welding shop server was optioned for a television series. Prior to joining the New York Times in 2011, she covered venture capital and start-ups for Forbes Magazine. She is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and lives in Los Angeles.
An intricately detailed, deeply sourced and reported history of the
origins and growth of the [cyberweapons] market and the global
cyberweapons arms race it has sparked . . . This is no bloodless,
just-the-facts chronicle. Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a
spy thriller, Perlroth’s book sets out from the start to scare us
out of our complacency . . . Perlroth comes at the reader hard,
like an angry Cassandra who has spent the last seven years of her
life unmasking the signs of our impending doom – only to be ignored
again and again . . . A strong, data-driven case for action
*New York Times*
Perlroth is a longtime cybersecurity reporter for the New York
Times, and her book makes a kind of Hollywood entrance . . .
Perlroth’s storytelling is part John le Carré and more parts
Michael Crichton – ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ meets ‘The
Andromeda Strain’. Because she’s writing about a boys’ club,
there’s also a lot of ‘Fight Club’ in this book . . . And, because
she tells the story of the zero-day market through the story of her
investigation, it’s got a Frances McDormand ‘Fargo’ quality, too .
. . Spellbinding
*New Yorker*
When the weaknesses of a system can be bought and sold, the results
can be calamitous, as This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends shows
. . . Engaging and troubling . . . This secretive market is
difficult to penetrate, but Perlroth has dug deeper than most and
chronicles her efforts wittily
*Economist*
A terrifying exposé of the black market in software bugs . . .
Perlroth’s insider accounts provide texture and context that was
often missing from news coverage at the time. Storytelling skills
honed in her work as a New York Times reporter specialising in
cybersecurity make them scarier, particularly because of the
collateral damage . . . Yet the thrust of her commendably thorough
and determined research is not the damage done, but the market in
mayhem that underpins it . . . Perlroth does an admirable job in
stripping away the jargon
*The Times*
A stemwinder of a tale of how frightening cyber weapons have been
turned on their maker, and the implications for the world when
everyone and anyone can now decimate everyone else with a click of
a mouse . . . Perlroth takes a complex subject that has been
cloaked in opaque techspeak and makes it dead real for the rest of
us. You will not look at your mobile phone, your search engine,
even your networked thermostat the same way again
*Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and New York Times opinion
writer*
Nicole Perlroth has written a dazzling and revelatory history of
the darkest corner of the internet, where hackers and governments
secretly trade the tools of the next war . . . This Is How They
Tell Me the World Ends is a rollicking fun trip, front to back, and
an urgent call for action before our wired world spins out of our
control. I've covered cybersecurity for a decade and yet paragraph
after paragraph I kept wondering: 'How did she manage to figure
*that* out? How is she so good?'"
*Garrett M. Graff, author of 'The Only Plane in the Sky'*
The definitive history of cyberwarfare. Nicole Perlroth connects
the dots and the behind the scenes action of every serious
intrusion, cyberattack and cyberespionage revelation in the last
decade
*Clint Watts, author of 'Messing With The Enemy'*
A must-read tale of cloak-and-dagger mercenary hackers, digital
weapons of mass destruction and clandestine, ne'er-do-well
government agencies
*Lawrence Ingrassia, author of 'Billion Dollar Brand Club'*
Usually, books like this are praised by saying that they read like
a screenplay or a novel. Nicole Perlroth’s is better: her
sensitivity to both technical issues and human behavior give this
book an authenticity that makes its message - that cybersecurity
issues threaten our privacy, our economy, and maybe our lives -
even scarier
*Steven Levy, author of 'Hackers and Facebook'*
An essential cautionary tale [that] exposes the motivations and
misgivings of the people helping governments hack into our devices.
After Perlroth's incisive investigation, there's no excuse for
ignoring the costs of the cyber arms race
*Sarah Frier, Bloomberg, author of 'No Filter'*
Wonderfully readable . . . A rip-roaring story of hackers and
bug-sellers and spies
*Steven M. Bellovin, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia
University*
Nicole Perlroth does what few other authors on the cyber beat can:
she tells a highly technical, gripping story . . . A
page-turner
*Nina Jankowicz, author of 'How to Lose the Information War'*
A whirlwind global tour that introduces us to the crazy characters
and bizarre stories behind the struggle to control the internet. It
would be unbelievable if it wasn't all so very true
*Alex Stamos, Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and
former head of security for Facebook and Yahoo*
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